Automobile disk wheel



' Oct. 21 1924p 1,512,418 F. H. GODFREY AUTOMOBILE DISK WHEEL Filed April 24 1924 Iavwzwran: fiat M 452%? MW .4 T TORNE'Y'.

20 wheel with hub and tire.

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tented $21,124.

: HENRY oonrnnr, or s'r'. rams, m mnasore.

AUTO OBILE msx WHEEL.

Application filed. April 24, 1924. Ser1a1Ro. 708 ,748.

6 soy and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Automobile Disk Wheels, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to disk wheels for 10 automobiles and other vehicles using wheels with rubber tires of either the solid or pneumatic type. .The ob,ect is to provide a disk wheel that is inexpensive to manufacture, very durable and from'which tires 15 may be easily removed and replaced without the use of special tools and without risk of injuring the beads of a tire.

.In the accompanying drawing:

. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my complete Fig. 2 1s a diametrical section of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of portions of Fig. 2 se arated. r

W eferring to the drawing byreference the wheel is composed of two members, one of which is a concavo-convex disk E having a central aperture B inwhich to secure an suitable hub A by rivets, or bolts, C. The, member E has an annular,

rectangular shoulder H and beyond the same a comparatively narrow plain, circular flange the E termintaing in a peripheral channel which is to-hold one of the beads of rubber tire A. The other wheel member 5 consists of a flat circular flange D fitting snugly upon the shoulder H and secured to the part E by bolts, or screws 0?, Said flan e" .D carries a perlpheral channel G whic together with-the channel F forms in whic the tire is held.

The tire may be put intothe groove or removed therefrom by simply removing the screw-or bolts C and separating the two the tell of the wheel and thegrooved rim to wheel members. The invention avoids ex- 45 pensive construction such as securing two spaced disks together with or without using two hub members, .threaded or bolted together,and in some cases they have slant- 1ng radial contact surfaces hard to fit and hold together against sliding movement of the parts. I

What I claim'is: 1. A wheel of'the class described, having a peripheral channel for holdingthe beads 65 of a rubber tire; said wheel being composed of a main member and av secondary member,

the main member having a concavo-convex disk with a central hole for the hub of the wheel, and the outer v formed with an angu ar shoulder and. a

flat flange extending beyond the shoulder and having its peripheral portion formed with a lateral groove makinghalf of the channel; the secondary member havinfga $6 similar groove making the other hal .of

the channel and a flat circular flange projecting radially from its inner fitt'in' snugly about the an and bolts passed through 15 and securing them firmly to ther.

' 2. The structure specific eral plane of the wheel.

- I testimOny whereof I aifix iny signature. i

FRANK HENRY GonFREi'.

which are very 60 I ortion of the disk 60 edgejandf lar shoulder, e. said flanges in claim- 1, in-

which said shoulder and the edge fittingitflp are substantially at right angles the gem .75, 

